Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulbs blaring in loops. The bars glow. No light whatever shows under the BQE, where the shush of cars grows louder with the rush hour, people passing over Sunset Park on their way home to other places. Tony and Ingrid live just east of Third, across from a car wash whose walls are covered with curlicues of graffiti. At this hour, Tony is on the job at the metal plant, and Ingrid has the two girls home from school...
...title is not meant to be funny, he adds. "I had a maid named Margaret who would wash everything but my underwear...
...most of these aspiring talents, the attraction of writing works of length lies not in the glory of publishing but with the itch to create. Glenn E. Orenstein '88, who is currently working on a book called "Margaret Would Not Wash My Underwear," terms writing "an obsession...
...author of "Margaret Would Not Wash My Underwear" characterizes his opus as a novel-length description of the year he spent in Kenya before coming to Harvard. The novel will provide "an all-encompassing description of my thoughts and experiences in Nakuru, Kenya," Orenstein says...
Parroting a moderated version of Reagan rhetoric turns on the hope that a new decade will soon be here and that political moods always change with new decades. This wishing simply will not wash. The Democratic Party cannot afford to abandon the things it has long stood for: economic security, minority rights, education, arms control, and preserving the environment. What Democratic leaders have forgotten how to do is to frame those issues as majority issues, rather than in terms of serving special-interest groups...